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Hands-On Natural Language Processing with PyTorch 1.x

By : Thomas Dop
Book Image

Hands-On Natural Language Processing with PyTorch 1.x

By: Thomas Dop

Overview of this book

In the internet age, where an increasing volume of text data is generated daily from social media and other platforms, being able to make sense of that data is a crucial skill. With this book, you’ll learn how to extract valuable insights from text by building deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Starting by understanding how to install PyTorch and using CUDA to accelerate the processing speed, you’ll explore how the NLP architecture works with the help of practical examples. This PyTorch NLP book will guide you through core concepts such as word embeddings, CBOW, and tokenization in PyTorch. You’ll then learn techniques for processing textual data and see how deep learning can be used for NLP tasks. The book demonstrates how to implement deep learning and neural network architectures to build models that will allow you to classify and translate text and perform sentiment analysis. Finally, you’ll learn how to build advanced NLP models, such as conversational chatbots. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have understood the different NLP problems that can be solved using deep learning with PyTorch, but also be able to build models to solve them.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1: Essentials of PyTorch 1.x for NLP
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Section 3: Real-World NLP Applications Using PyTorch 1.x

Chapter 9: The Road Ahead

The field of machine learning is rapidly expanding, with new revelations being made almost yearly. The field of machine learning for NLP is no exception, with advancements being made rapidly and the performance of machine learning models on NLP tasks incrementally increasing.

So far in this book, we have discussed a number of machine learning methodologies that allow us to build models to perform NLP tasks such as classification, translation, and approximating conversation via a chatbot. However, as we have seen so far, the performance of our models has been worse and relative to that of a human being. Even using the techniques we have examined so far, including sequence-to-sequence networks with attention mechanisms, we are unlikely to train a chatbot model that will match or outperform a real person. However, we will see in this chapter that recent developments in the field of NLP have been made that bring us one step closer to the goal of creating chatbots...